Mismatch of potential and chances for Dutch primary school pupils
Your
background and zip code determine the school career of your child
25
Oct
11
Mar
Opportunity (in)equalities for students in the Netherlands
The Inspectie van het Onderwijs" The Inspectorate of Education'' - a special government org...
17
Jun
How the teacher’s knowledge about multilingualism can accelerate or hinder the child’s development
More than a quarter of children in Dutch primary education are estimated to be multilingual, having a differ...
28
May
”Ditch and replace these tests with more appropriate ones but do not punish the student!”
Exclusive interview with Professor John Hattie, part 2.P...
24
May
‘’No single intervention by schools is worse than retention’’
Exclusive interview with Professor John Hattie, part 1.Pr...
15
May
Migration background determines child’s career at schools in the Netherlands
Did you know that the Netherlands is a European leader in….retention! On average in European countries 7, 3% of c...
19
Apr
‘’Schools should provide additional support to bilingual children’’
Leslie
Sheriff is American and her husband Andrew is from Scotland. Their son is
bilingual and attends a Dutch sc...
15
Apr
‘’Teachers: have and show more empathy to bilingual children’’
Gabriela Voicu and her husband come from Romania and before moving to Maastricht they lived with their daughter V...
09
Apr
‘’Find a school that not only listens but also really hears you’’
Parents of multilingual children share their experiences about educating their children at Dutch schools
29
Mar
‘’Bilingual children have two language systems and this makes them different from monolingual children. Not better, not worse, just different’’
Interview with Sharon Unsworth, Phd, Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Radboud University N...